{"product_id":"every-monument-will-fall-a-story-of-remembering-and-forgetting-hardcover","title":"Every Monument Will Fall: A Story of Remembering and Forgetting - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDan Hicks\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'An extraordinary intervention. If you want to understand the stakes and the limitations of contemporary conflict over culture and colonial history this bold, provocative book is an indispensable resource' \u003cb\u003ePaul Gilroy, founding Director of the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Race and Racism at UCL\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Hicks' must-read book describes how it was possible for a human skull to be made into a drinking cup and used in a genteel Oxford college, well into the 21st century, as if empire were an eternal state of nature . . . Read it to learn new ways to be anti-racist, abolitionist and to tell other stories than those commemorated by the monuments that surround us, from statues, to museums and the police' \u003cb\u003eNicholas Mirzoeff, author of \u003ci\u003eWhite Sight\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Brave and clear-sighted. Hicks opens up an extraordinary conversation between the past and the present. This is a book about falling statues, but so much more. It's about how we've been lied to, and how we can approach the past with honesty. Hicks asks whether history and archaeology should be used to justify actions we know impinge on the rights of others - or to understand ourselves better' \u003cb\u003eAlice Roberts, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eCrypt \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Dan Hicks writes with grace and fierce focus about what we choose to remember and why, in our patterns of thought, our institutions and the built environment in which we live' \u003cb\u003eEyal Weizman, director of Forensic Architecture\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe culture war is over. If you want it to be. It wasn't even a culture war; it was a war on culture. A sustained attack, Dan Hicks argues, in the form of the weaponisation of civic museums, public art, and even universities -- and one that has a deeper history than you might think.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTracing the origins of contemporary conflicts over art, heritage, memory, and colonialism, \u003ci\u003eEvery Monument Will Fall\u003c\/i\u003e joins the dots between the building of statues, the founding of academic disciplines like archaeology and anthropology, and the warehousing of stolen art and human skulls in museums -- including the one in which he is a curator. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart history, part biography, part excavation, the story runs from the Yorkshire wolds to the Crimean War, from southern Ireland to the frontline of the American Civil War, from the City of London to the University of Oxford -- revealing enduring legacies of militarism, slavery, racism and white supremacy hardwired into the heart of our cultural institutions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eEvery Monument Will Fall \u003c\/i\u003eoffers an urgent reappraisal of how we think about culture, and how to find hope, remembrance and reconciliation in the fragments of an unfinished violent past. Refusing to choose between pulling down every statue, or living in a past that we can never change, the book makes the case for allowing monuments to fall once in a while, even those that are hard to see as monuments, rebuilding a memory culture that is in step with our times.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDan Hicks is Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Oxford, Curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum, and a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. He has written widely on art, heritage, museums, colonialism, cultural memory, and the material culture of the recent past and the near-present. Dan has authored and edited eight books, and has written for a wide variety of journals, magazines and newspapers, from \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Daily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eApollo Magazine, Art Review, Architectural Review \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Art Newspaper. \u003c\/i\u003eTwitter\/Instagram: @ProfDanHicks\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 592\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 25, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47416103043293,"sku":"9781529152746","price":62.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/B-cPL2CytT9781529152746.webp?v=1771211627","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/every-monument-will-fall-a-story-of-remembering-and-forgetting-hardcover","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}